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Oct 30, 2007 at 12:01 AMOct 30, 2007 at 10:00 AM

Ohio dropout factories?

In the Johns Hopkins study, no more than 60 percent of students who started as freshmen at 19 central Ohio high schools were found to have made it to their senior year. The Ohio Department of Education, however, shows many of those same districts with significantly higher graduation rates than did Johns Hopkins, based on its way of calculation. Below are the districts cited in the Hopkins report, with the Ohio Department of Education graduation rate for 2005-06 in parentheses for comparison:

Ohio dropout factories?

In the Johns Hopkins study, no more than 60 percent of students who started as freshmen at 19 central Ohio high schools were found to have made it to their senior year. The Ohio Department of Education, however, shows many of those same districts with significantly higher graduation rates than did Johns Hopkins, based on its way of calculation. Below are the districts cited in the Hopkins report, with the Ohio Department of Education graduation rate for 2005-06 in parentheses for comparison: